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34. Actually in the books

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:04 PM

Dec 2013

but not so much in the films, it is brought up several times by M and other higher-ups in the secret service, that Bond is drinking (and smoking) excessively. Bond, himself often thinks about cutting down. At the beginning of Thunderball, he is sent by M to a new age health farm to dry out (this is also included in the movie, but I don't recall if it was for drinking/smoking or just general bad health).

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James Bond's dirty little spy secret: He's an alcoholic [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 OP

Yeah, but you get to drive a cool car with great gadgets. BKH70041 Dec 2013 #1

They forgot to take into account that 007 is a robot and, like Bender, runs on alcohol. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2013 #2

Is the same true for John Boehner? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #4

Put it this way... jmowreader Dec 2013 #8

I suppose next they'll claim Paul Bunyan's ox wasn't blue jberryhill Dec 2013 #3

What? How dare you? CTyankee Dec 2013 #17

And... he was white, that's a verifiable fact jberryhill Dec 2013 #44

he's got nothing on Archer WhaTHellsgoingonhere Dec 2013 #5

"If I quit drinking right now, Twinguard Dec 2013 #6

"I need you to go home, sober up, and make sure your apartment is secure!" Initech Dec 2013 #37

Funniest fucking show on TV. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #15

Hell yeah! Who wants a Green Russian? Initech Dec 2013 #45

Nor Modesty Blaise - oops, sorry, wrong impression from the thread. I forgot how Archer drank haele Dec 2013 #18

I had a thing for Emma Peel Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #26

So did these guys Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #31

Emma Peel lapfog_1 Dec 2013 #32

She looked fantastic in those catsuits. Ilsa Dec 2013 #33

She played Margaery Tyrell's grandmother in GOT Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #43

Having read the books Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #47

Yep. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #48

Extraordinary crimes against the state must be avenged by agents extraordinary... nt Buns_of_Fire Dec 2013 #35

+++ aye MerryBlooms Dec 2013 #24

I know. When they had Archer wake up with amnesia in Bob's Burgers, it was classic. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #28

Yes! MerryBlooms Dec 2013 #39

"Bloody Mary, full of vodka, blessed art thou among cocktails." Initech Dec 2013 #36

The wonderful thing about fictional characters is that reality need not apply! Arkansas Granny Dec 2013 #7

Ian Fleming, Bond's creator, died of heart disease at 56! LongTomH Dec 2013 #9

I'm 56 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #19

And he is WHITE...he just is, kiddies. DearAbby Dec 2013 #10

"I'll stop drinking as soon as figure out a better way to get the stuff down." longship Dec 2013 #11

Perhaps he only drank when he was on assignment FarCenter Dec 2013 #12

I know many people that can drink with no apparent effects. Packerowner740 Dec 2013 #13

He's also not exactly, what's the word? ...Real. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #14

The hell you say Major Nikon Dec 2013 #29

I wonder if they took into account that when you shake a martini kentauros Dec 2013 #16

To Quote President Bartlett, Wolf Frankula Dec 2013 #22

Not really a surprise, since in most respects Bond was Ian Fleming Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #20

Shaken but not stirred! Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2013 #21

I wonder which movie is the best to roll for a drinking game? Major Nikon Dec 2013 #23

a "shaken" martini is a dilute martini 0rganism Dec 2013 #25

My candle burns at both ends jazzimov Dec 2013 #27

At the beginning of "Thunderball," M ships Bond off to a health clinic Buns_of_Fire Dec 2013 #30

Actually in the books ballabosh Dec 2013 #34

If your liver is hard enough, it will deflect bullets Glassunion Dec 2013 #38

Unless this "study" was done as a hobby, they just wasted a bunch of time and money 1000words Dec 2013 #40

Actually the study was on the long term effects of a feline deficient diet. Glassunion Dec 2013 #41

Nice! 1000words Dec 2013 #42

I have read more than one novel in which characters drink a great deal of alcohol SheilaT Dec 2013 #46

Bond would be a flop, so to speak, in the sack. 47of74 Dec 2013 #49